Any Asthmatics here?

rondetto

Well, I've just come from my GP's. I had a Spirometer test last week and went for the results.
No question, I am an asthmatic, and will have 2 different inhalers from now on.
As If my Ankylosing Spondylitis and RA isn't enough, as well as Angina, I feel like I'm an utter wreck now.
I am determined to keep smiling whatever, so there.

chris7

Hi Ron

This is what I would like to do for your AS, RA angina and now asthma


Glad to see you are hanging onto that sense of humour inspite of it all. If you need a giggle, there is a really lovely chap on here who posts on the Have a laugh thread and makes us all smile

Hang in there, and take care
Chris xx

dorcas

Hey Rondetto!
we still love you no matter what you've got or what bits fall off or need replaced.

keep on keeping on....it's all any of us can do eh?

now where did that chap go who always makes us laugh :?: I'm sure he was here a minute ago.

Irisx

barbara12

Hi Ron
I have always thought you where female, with such a good sense of humour.....sorry you are feeling down I will send you some gentle hugs(((((())))) and hope things improve very soon...please carry on making us laugh
Barbara x

frogmorton

Hi Ron

knickers

I am sorry

Upside is - you will be feeling a hell of a lot better on those inhalers.

Love

Toni xx

elnafinn

Hi Ron

I am sorry to hear that! At least life should be easier on the inhalers.

:oops: :oops: in a whisper, perhaps if you stamped on the ciggies ........ :oops: :oops:

Have you a holiday planned for soon? I remember you liked your hols

Luv
Elna x

salamander

hi Ron, Yes I am asthmatic and use inhalers. If you use the 'preventer' properly (i.e. prescribed the right amount!) you shouldn't need the other one so much. I only really have problems when I get a cold or chest infection then it gets really bad. But not a problem generally. I hope you get on with inhalers ok.
Sally

pheebs

Hi Ron,

Sorry you have something else to add to your list - bit of a bummer. But as Toni and Elna have said, you'll feel much better if you keep taking your inhalers as prescribed.

I have mild asthma and always take my preventative twice a day, and carry my reliever "just in case".

I'm lucky cos asthma has never been the cause of me ending up in hospital but I know some suffer far worse than me.
And I can still exercise without being out of puff.

Look after yourself.

Pheebs x

annie_mial

Me, too......I use a preventer and a steroid inhaler daily and carry an emergency inhaler at all times.........doesn't life get interesting now and then?

Annie

joyful164

Hi Ron

Sorry to hear the tests prove that you are asthmatic. I have always been prone to Bronchial Asthmatic attacks and my asthma is sometimes triggered by cigarette smoke or flowers/grass.

I have gone onto a dairy free diet and have soya or rice milk instead of ordinary milk. Ordinary milk can create mucus in the tubes and make breathing difficult. I do still get a tightness in my chest but my breathing is so much better. It is worth studying and see if it might help you. If you ask your doctor and see what he thinks or ask someone in the asthma clinic. They would know best.

Joy

chile168

Hi Ron,

Yes I am Asthmatic and have had really bad asthma attacks and ended in A&E breathing into a brown bag.

My attacks are strange, every pore in my skin seems to close and I can't get any air no matter how hard I try to breathe. I can't even speak when having an attack and to other people I look as though Im choking and changing colour.

I use sulbutamol inhaler as the steroid inhaler seemed to be choking me lol. Only problem, I normally forget to carry it.

Eve

ninakang

alright ron?

I found when I had asthma that if I regularly took the brown inhaler, then I didn't need to use the blue one that much... like other people have said also.

But then I had a breast reduction and it cured my asthma! Honestly - I haven't used the inhalers for 3 years, even when I've had cold and flu. I know this isn't particularly helpful to you, Ron, but I love to tell this story ;-)

Nx

oneday

Best info i got was off asthma uk website which has staff to answer queries, brilliant...takel medicine carefully...also chemists can help explaining etc.....

rondetto

Thanks for the wonderful replies. My GP has sent me for a chest X ray too, just as a precaution. I went today so have to wait for the results now.
Elna, in reply yes we go to Spain mid April. One drawback of course is that it costs a lot to insure me and my wife. We have to declare all our illnesses just in case we are taken ill abroad.
I do love my holidays, though it worries me that I have a bad flare up either just before or while we're there. So far been lucky.

Thanks all
Ron
xxx

oneday

this thread has reminded me i shoud have picked a prescription up,whoops.

trisher

Hi Ron

I have Asthma very badly. I use an inhaler, well I use the 2 inhalers but also have to have nebbies.

I use my inhaler differently though. I have a plastic container, on one end you put the inhaler into it. The other end is for you to inhale the meds.
I have to use nebbie's too.

Once you get into a routine it is not hard.

I hope you get on well though.

Trish x

annie_mial

Oh, you got a spacer, Trish - SNAP!

Annie

trisher

That's right Annie, so you got one as well.

They do say that having it that way you get almost all the dose.

joyful164

ninakang wrote:

alright ron?

I found when I had asthma that if I regularly took the brown inhaler, then I didn't need to use the blue one that much... like other people have said also.

But then I had a breast reduction and it cured my asthma! Honestly - I haven't used the inhalers for 3 years, even when I've had cold and flu. I know this isn't particularly helpful to you, Ron, but I love to tell this story ;-)

Nx

WOW.
Worth a thought. But then I don't really want to lose any. Do you think it would happen if I had them lifted up a bit?

Joy

rondetto

Nope, not really helpful, but it seems it worked for you.

katymac

Hi Ron

Sorry to hear you have joined the chesty gang I've not been around for a couple of years, but decided to pop back to see my old mates - nice to see you too, oneday.

I'm the one who was buying the silk pantaloon for the camels

Kathy

rondetto

Nice to see you too Katy.

miss_l

I agree ... i need to find my inhaler!

I'm ok at taking the steroid one but my little 'keep the lungs working blue one' i forget quite often!

Got a bright pink pouch for it now tho which im hoping will make it catch my eye more!
x

rondetto

Mine's a Ventolin(Blue), but apparently my GP wants to change it to another, I go next week to see her.